| dc.description.abstract | Javanese has been studied from many different perspectives. However, no one
discusses how Javanese respond to compliments politely. The aim of this study is to
investigate the politeness strategies as applied to respond to compliments by the Javanese
people in Jember, East Java. The notion of politeness plays crucial role in the realization
of speech acts (utterances and verbal communication) in Javanese, such as responding to
compliements. As utterances and verbal communications should be interpreted based on
the sosio-cultural background, the politeness strategies in responding to compliments in
Javanese cannot be separated from the concepts of the Javanese culture, such as: andhapasor
(lowering oneself, while exalting the others) and tanggap ing sasmita
(understanding the hidden meaning). First, as a Javanese, one must be able to apply the
concept of andhap-asor in responding to compliments by denigrating himself. Second, a
good Javanese should also have a sense of tanggap ing sasmita while responding to
compliments. Consequently, failure to apply one of the cultural factors can be detrimental
to the speaker, reducing the harmony of the conversation. This paper examines how
politeness is manifested and conveyed within the major framework of the Javanese
culture. This study is about socio-cultural pragmatics in which utterances are discussed in
relation to their situations, and the cultural background which support them. The data are
in the form of dialogues among students-teachers, and students-students which show the
different social status among the interlocutors. The data of this research were collected by
recording, and by note taking (for the parts in which recording is not possible). The data
are aimed to generate the strategies used by the Javanese (in Jember, Indonesia) to build
politeness strategies in responding to compliments. Finally, the data of this research are
examined both from the general theory of politeness, and the Javanese cultural concepts
(andhap-asor and tanggap ing sasmita). This study provides important findings which
reveal that responding to compliments in Javanese can be achieved in five strategies: (1)
disagreeing and denigrating, (2) disagreing and raising a question, (3) accepting and
turning back, (4) accepting and giving explanation, and (5) accepting only, or accepting
and offering. | en_US |
